Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: Commentary

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The purpose of the following Commentary pages is to provide amplification and additional analysis of concepts and arguments introduced in the text outlines for Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. The subtitles below will help you find the Commentary topic you are searching for. You may click a Book a get the entire Commentary for that Book, or you may choose the specific topics listed in the subtitles, where the Commentary for the Book includes more than one topic.

 

BOOK I: The Human Good, Happiness, and Human Function

BOOK II: Moral Virtue and the Doctrine of the Mean

BOOK III: Responsibility, Choice, and Phronesis (Practical Wisdom or Prudence)

BOOK VI: Intellectual Virtue

BOOK VII: Akrasia or Weakness of Will

BOOK VII, X: Pleasure

BOOK VIII, IX: Friendship

BOOK X: Happiness and Contemplation